Quinn Bolivar his father Walter and friend Tommy joined me aboard the Benchmark 2 sunday afternoon. I am glad we left the dock with live bait because we barely made it up the beach 3 miles and bass and bunker were exploding on the surface. Long story short be boated 4 and had a shot at maybe 15. The fish were so aggressive for about an hour that the bunker were trying to jump back in th boat and the bass as well. No exageration water was being splashed into the boat from the bass, 5 or 6 at a time chasing one bunker right up to and almost into the boat. Exciting trip and I was glad to have them biting.

Jack Shaw and his possible son in law:) and brother joined us sunday morning. We had our tails between our legs from friday night but came out determined to catch a bass. We made bait and headed straight for chunking on the rocks, ten minutes in, it became wind against tide and we knew we were in trouble. We switched gears to seabass and ling until the tide change and everyone had a blast catching over 50 keeper seabass and some ling and again a few cod. The last 2 hours of the day we stopped on the bass grounds threw a bait in and instantly had a bite, yes the captain missed it. Last half hour a bass exploded on a bait and birdnested the heck out of the reel. We actually caught the fish by backing down on the fish because the reel was only going one way. in. We werent losing this one. Good day, great crew.

Jeff Scharf and his family along with Tom Armbrewster joined us for a bass trip on friday afternoon. Bait was easier to catch but I soon got the feeling that the bas didnt like us much anymore. The southwind came up, we read fish but couldnt keep either of the two bites we had hooked up. Tough fishing, great group.

Jason Gaynor and the boys heard the previous days bass exploits or lack there of and decided to give the freshly opened seabass season a try. We started off like gang busters boating a lot of nice keepers and after the tide change it became a pick. By days end we tallied 50 plus nice keepers and even a couple cod again.

Wyatt Vince and his party joined us for a bass trip aboard the Benchmark thursday and bait was tough to get but the bass were really playing hard to get. We missed a few bites throughout the day but the guys stuck with and at the final whistle, we boated a nice 35 pounder and had several others come up and play with our baits which put on a good show.

I headed out tuesday evening with Rob Dalglish abaord the Benchmark 2 in pursuit of the big ones again and after making bait which wasnt easy we found the fish further offshore and began catching almost immediately. We ended up with 6 nice bass, the biggest of which was my personal best of 40lbs on the nose, it was 47 inches with a 26 inch girth caught on a spinning outfit. nice trip.

After making a quick decision to move the boat back to point pleasant on saturday afternoon my open trip turned into a 2 man trip on the Benchmark 2. tom rosenmeyer and Joe Fritzen joined me for some live lining and we ended up with 15 bass to 30 plus pounds, all of which were released except 2 for the table. Nice trip.

Tom Merrick and his group from Otis elevator joined us saturday morning abaord the Benchmark. We headed down the beach in search of the big bass again and trolled up 2 nice fish on spoons and then switched gears and caught a nice catch of ling seabass and again a few cod.

Drew Kelly was out with us in the afternoon and it was a whole new world of bass fishing. We no sooner snagged a bunker and had a fish on and it went like that for 2 hours. When it was all over we boated 11 very nice bass on live bunker.

Brian Dietz was back again with us for some more bass fishing abaord the Benchmark and it turned out to be a tough morning for us. We switched gears mid morning and headed for some rock piles offshore and caught a good pile of nice ling and a half dozen cod to finish up the day.

Dan Kratz and the gang from seven son environmental joined us aboard the Benchmark forthere annual spring striper trip. We realized early on in the morning that the day befores excellent clam bite had died and made a run down the beach. We put another 8 nice keepers to 27lbs in the boat before days end and called it a day.

The shamrock technologies charter joined us wednesday on the Benchmark the day after a little noreaster and managed a limit before 9:30 on clams. The fish were up to 36 inches. I took a picture but it dissapeared from my phone so I will have to post one later on. To be continued.

Drew Kelly and some of philadelphias finest joined us monday afternoon on the Benchmark and pulled off 8 nice keepers trolling spoons and plugs once again.

Billy A and his family and friends joined us aboard the mighty benchmark sunday morning and were greeted by lightwinds, sunny skies and a lot of boats. We managed a pick of 8 nice keepers and several misses and spent an hour or so before the end of the day catching a few ling, cod and a winter flounder.

Bill Tallman and friends joined us on saturday morning aboard the Benchmark and we headed right back to the spoons down the beach. We put our limit together by 9:30 released a few more and headed for the barn to avoid the building seas.